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Observer, Volume XXXII, Issue 23, 17 February 1912, Page 14

A great number of old favourites are reappearing on the boards in Sydney with all of their old success. Mr G. S. Titheradge, of course, heads the list. He was playing at th Palace Theatre in Oscar Wilde's comedy, "A Woman of No Importance," with \the Plimmer-Dennis-ton Co. Asa " literary " play its success was at first regarded as doubtful, but the audiences set all doubts at rest. The Wilde comedy was replaced by one of the pet plays of the Brough-Boucicault days for a short season, ** A Village Priest," with Mr Titheradge in his famous part of L'Abbe Dubois. The season will be closed about the middle of February, and the company will set out on a tour of the Commonwealth, starting at Hobart.

Says Lady Duff-Gordon, that volTible gossiper on feminities in a recent English exchange : " Actresses almost always exaggerate in their gowns. In Paris what is called the fashion is set by about twenty actresses. Monna Delza, the beauty who is destined to take the place of Lantelme of the tragic death is one. The Parisienne goes to the theatre as she goes to a house of fashions. She studies, she criticises, she analyses. She sees the gowns in movement. She picks what she wants, modifies what is not harmonious to her, adopts the spirit of the gown she sees to her needs. And that is right. If she slavishly copies — then that is stupid. ... Do not misunderstand me. Ido not mean at all that actresses are the only well-dressed women. Far from it. But I do mean that every woman should study her charms, her attractions, and then should dress so as to bring these charms, these attractions, out in full strength. Only dress can do this. The well-dressed actress is a lesson in how to do it."